Cottage residences : or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds Adapted to North America . tors, chanc-ing to call at the dinner hour, cannot be shown into theparlor without passing the table, and perhaps discomposingthe whole family. But in the present case, the door beingclosed between the entrance or vestibule and the dininghall, the table «, and persons seated about it, would becompletely private. There is a glazed back door openingto the rear of the house, near the left angle of this hall,and a door opening into the kitchen passage b, on t
Cottage residences : or, A series of designs for rural cottages and cottage villas, and their gardens and grounds Adapted to North America . tors, chanc-ing to call at the dinner hour, cannot be shown into theparlor without passing the table, and perhaps discomposingthe whole family. But in the present case, the door beingclosed between the entrance or vestibule and the dininghall, the table «, and persons seated about it, would becompletely private. There is a glazed back door openingto the rear of the house, near the left angle of this hall,and a door opening into the kitchen passage b, on the right,and the hall also receives light from the window overthis door, in the second story. This passage is formed byrunning a solid partition across the kitchen building, so as 44 COTTAGE RESIDENCES. to admit of two doors, in order to prevent smells ; one,an ordinary door opening into the hall, and the other afly or spring-door, opening into the kitchen. This partitionalso gives room for the introduction of two convenientclosets, one for the kitchen, and another for the the plan of the second floor, Fig. 11, we have two. SEOON D [Fig. 11.] large and two small bedrooms. There is a dressing-roomand closet communicating with the small bedroom on theleft, and a closet for linen opening into the hall. Thecellar plan is not given, as this would be very simple,and would probably not be required larger than the mainbuilding. Access would be had to it by steps goingdown under the stone platform of the stoop on whichthe hall, back door, and the kitchen door open; and bystairs descending under the ascending staircase in the elevation of this cottage is in the English cottage COTTAGE RESIDENCES. 45 style, so generally admired for the picturesqueness evincedin its tall gables ornamented by handsome verge boardsand finials, its neat or fanciful chimney tops, its latticedwindows, and other striking features, showing how thegenius of pointed or Gothic architecture may b
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